She Continues
I’ve been knee deep in star magic of late over at Rune Soup, and the tech in question uses Christian prayer to help get things off the ground. Why? The tech continues and builds out of vastly ancient magical techniques. And as I’ve played with it, it works. Meanwhile, Gordon pointed folks to a prayer […] … Continue reading…Angelic Protocols
I grew up nominally Baptist. But not really. My Dad was in a Baptist church in Texas, sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, and so on. My Mom’s family apparently would apparently sit around the family electric organ with other musical instruments and sing hymns and other religious songs. At some point, my Dad […] … Continue reading…Cosmic Church
  The following article I had started to draft months ago for a particular project that was abandoned. However, I had some recent notions about the subject that I wanted to explore. Dating most likely to the early eighteenth century, the Clavis Inferni identifies the demonic, directional Four Kings of the spirits as Uricus, Maymon, […] … Continue reading…Allegories of Hell
Want Early on, I felt magic was real—I felt it, and in feeling it, I wanted it from an early age. When my friends and I were first experimenting with what I’ll charitably call “weird shit,” enough weird shit happened to us that we couldn’t deny it. I had spirit contact in dreams and in […] … Continue reading…Reflections on Wanting, Resisting, and the Headless Rite
If we can haunt the forests, and they can haunt us, then what about our art, our ideologies, our faith? … Continue reading…Haunted Minds
It’s warming up here now, and spring is around the corner—next week, in fact. And I get cooped up indoors during winter because (1) it’s cold and (2) everything goes to sleep. The trees stand tall but dormant, leafless, swaying only in stronger winds. I can look up at them casting silhouettes against the twilightening, […] … Continue reading…Forest Mind
In which I talk about “spirit animals,” spirits, icons, heraldry, the Four Kings, and giving yourself double vision. … Continue reading…Fantastic Beasts and How to Find Each Other
I was chatting with a friend via email, and as is my wont, I wound up having lots of things to say, and I started pondering things and trying to articulate them. But the topic of the NFL playoffs and the weirdness of the results came up. Now, I can’t do anything with football myself, […] … Continue reading…Red Pills & Furnaces
I’m going to gesture to enchanters—those who weave enchantment and faërien dramas—as tricksters and how tricksters game myths and create from myths. I’m going to gesture to how enchanters-as-tricksters use role-shifting and code-switching to out-maneuver opponents and problem situations. And I’m going to gesture to using those skills for culture jamming and magic. But I […] … Continue reading…Enchanting Tricksters
Amongst other things, jinn have been near the edges of my awareness. Primarily, I mean as a concept, but then so has Malphas and St. Brigid and the Sibyl. While I wait for Scarlet Imprint to release Jinn Sorcery, I was reading Umar S. al-Ashqar’s The World of the Jinn & Devils. One of the […] … Continue reading…Hollow Vessels